Papa on phone

For once I will not talk about Amy. There was this girl lets call her Kitty, as its about her smitten kitten story. :D

This little darling had a realization one day that she is falling for this friend of hers. They were friends for over 6 years then and had this cute chemistry. Kitty had her reasons to fall for him - she felts its high time she settled. She let the little tension build up - the tension of love. Trust me tensions are not built up holding one end. It has equal and opp reaction. There was always residual affection from otherside which she didnt allow till now.

 No need to mention all the initial phase was all hunky dory. Rather more than hunky dory. It was heavenly like the sweetest of food to freshest of smell to rhythmest of music. People didnt matter, aspirations didnt matter, nothing ever mattered. Kitty forgot to keep her foot in the earth. She was flying - may be this was called love is in the air.

Staying alone for a while made her not only independent but somewhere these kids tends to loose the hang on reality or on social norms. Kitty thought he was the reason and way forward. Both professional and personally. It is the logical step ahead, she thought so atleast. She can go onsite and then more exposure. She can also be closer to him. She had a master plan. Well she didnt think of it, the hairy guy from office had gone onsite stating reason that his fiance stays in the US.

Kitty had borrowed money from her mom and wanted to return the same as she got refund from tax. Her father told her to put an FD in the mom's name. Kitty was rushing for the call with her Boss but thought she can just about squeeze a call to dad to inform about the FD. She hurried to dial her Boss's number. They had a great conversation about her career and how she wants to move to the US because of her "Fiance" All the happy talks from boss ended, not even before he stopped congratulating but when she got a msg from Dad "What the hell is happening?"

It took Kitty a while to figure out what was her father referring to. Well the call with dad via cell phone was not cut and she got on to the call with her manager using the office VOIP. Oops Dad heard it all, as he was driving and had put his phone on speaker & didnt bother to cut the call.

All the pleasantness from her life just seemed to fade away. Well she was sure there was an earthquake!!! She just about avoided fumbling to her manager and completed the call in a hurry. Confided about this incident to the best friend. They did cook up a story to handle the infuriated Dad. Well no one deserves to know the love story like this. :) Not the parents atleast.

Then it got sorted out on its own because of pair's heart break. Well the positive side is atleast Kitty didnt have to explain the real story but a cooked up one - that she was asking only for onsite and thats the only way they tend to send her onsite. Phew!!! God Bless the lovers

Go Going Goa

Amy has never been a big party animal. Goa at this time of the year - the actual season of year end ... is not her idea of vacation or even spending money. But Megu was getting married and its good enough a reason to go against all the ideologies she had.

Amy, Megu, Shl, Gaurav and Saloni had been to Kolhad Kundalika River Rafting, during which Shl and Megu became good friends - To an extent that Shl self invited himself for the wedding. But then due to some personal reasons he had to back out. None of the GOGS (Gang of girls - that amy and megu were a part of ) were not going to come. Going alone that too to such a happening place was a disaster.

Come thursday: Amy, Rich and Ati were taking a walk. I just happened to put senti and guess what I got a bakra to come with me to Goa. Booked tickets for that night. Amy checked her calendar, that had calls till 12. The train was booked at 12 55 in the night. Left office at 9 30 pm, reached home 5 mins late for the call at 10 30. Further just to get to know that the lady on the other side has kept a call the following day.
None of these are sinking in for Amy as the only objective was she was going to Goa.

Amy starts packing. Goa being synonymous to LA – you cant be taking usual clothing. Need to take care of the heat, the cold, the fashion, the comfort and the space. And in this special case time as she had the next call starting in half an hour. Again late for this call. So much for professionalism she keeps professing.

This call goes on for ages. Any minute after 12 was an age in entirety as it increased the chance of her plan to go flop exponentially. The call ends at 12 15 and the stakeholder asks Amy to stay online for further discussion. She now panics and tries to finish packing when she was on phone.

Rush to the station and the rick driver was not able to understand her anxiety. He was just worried about potholes that his auto might have to hit if he sped up. To top it he dropped her on the other side of the platform. Well she was at platform no 1 and the train at 5. She had less than 10 mins and 3 bags to cover half the length of the train from platform 1 and rest from platform no 5. Well she had enough brains to know if reaches platform no 5, its enough for her, she can just get into the train and walk later. However uncomfortable it is.

Well she reached on time to avoid typical DDLJ stunts. Well a 3 day long vacation would mean too many misadventures – let me just list them down.

-          Forgot the blanket. Shivered through out the night. Ati wakes her up to show her the mist. “Baaahhh let me sleep” was the reply “Thakheli”

-          Come next day they don’t have a place to stay. Megu herself was coming to Goa in the night. If they don’t have a place, then this day would go for a waste as they cant roam around without freshening up. Pommy to the rescue. Amy has history of calling Pommy only when she has to go to Goa. She doesn’t even have the decency to store either numbers.

-          Ati got shouted at for not having her share of decency to let the Resort Owner know they ll not be coming

One thing good about them was they didn’t have a plan. They expected next few days just to be fluid squeezing all they can. Both of them watched "Life Ok!" and some K serials. For heaven sake you are in GOA

Dumped the bag, freshened up and went to eat.  Then think of plans. In Goa, you need not be worried. You just need to bargain. Rest - routes, places, things to do all comes in big sizes of indian advices. Some how they landed up going to places Amy had been to already. Walk Inn, Panjim Church, Dona Paula ( well reached beyond sunset ) and back in time for the call. Bus journey was fun just because Ati was so page 3.
 The disastrous shack dinner at Laxmi. I am sure Amy would have said the name itself sounds so non glamorous for Goan Standard. To over come we had to go to St Anthony's. Good crowd and nice music. 

Next day each one of them were snoozing the alarm to delay getting up. Finally Amy made Ati go and get activa. Both of them didnt have license. The activa owner made Ati swear on mother that they had license. Both of them minus the PAN Card, there was no assurance that they would be back in one piece. They covered Anjuna, Vagator, Chapora Fort, Calangute, Candolim, Aguara Jail, Fort Aguara, Sinquerim. Food!!! Amy so wanted to Hogg!!! but somehow she was loosing appetite - may be to fit into the clothes she got.

Best investment was the map they bought for 30 bucks.

Headed towards Panjim to further go to Old Goa. They were terrified to ride in the NH 17 and the bridge over River Mandovi.  Some blind courage was taking them somewhere.There were stupidity like stopping on the right hand side for directions or overtaking from left. Missing speed breakers, mis judging the folks who crossed the road.

When they reached Bom Jesus Church, the decided to go to Mangeshi and Sankaracharya Balaji Temple.
Frankly Amy didnt want to go to temples in Goa. She wanted to cover the Chapels, Churches, Forts, Beaches and everything that she could have. The love of Architecture got over the love of god ( in her religion) She had missed Fort TereKhol for covering the churches and the museum. But by the time they came back from temples, they could only hurry into Bom Jesus Church. The Art gallery was closed. The other church was also closed. 

This was probably the time they realized the priorities were different and this was not discussed. Sullen faces and silences followed. It was late to ride back. It was there that Amy and Ati were not confident to ride but also the fact that in Goa most of the folks on road seemed to drunk n high ( nothing against the natives but other who come for partying ) It was last time's Anjuna incident talking for Amy i guess. All the folks could see was firangs and they were guiding them well enough. They found it spooky - well out of the comfort zone. Ati suggested they by pass the city Panaji. They didnt have license nor a helmet. Well Amy confessed she felt they shouldnt be riding. It was not only dangerous for them but also the others in the vicinity. Ati knew a  shortcut. Take the ferry and it will by pass the city for you. Amy was doubtful with her gut feel in geography. Ati reassured if they ferry was available. When they passed the cutting which leads to ferry, it was just leaving. 
Amy asked the person near by "How much does the guy charge"
"Its free"
No further questions asked, they just landed up. Once the ferry reached, they were about to get out, thats when Amy asked the way for Baga/Calangute. The guys were pointing out in the opposite direction.

I need to congratulate Amy for holding her urge to shout. hahha :) She someone got hold of her and all her earlier grumpiness. They took the ferry back. The ferryman was also frust with them.

It was relief they reached!!! Next needs come into place.. need to be clean,hunger and then party. Ati had come only for partying and Amy wanted to give her this day for the marriage of Megu tomo. But they woke up late. Got ready, returned the bike, checked out of Palmil. They were really late for the wedding. 

Well they traveled by all means of transport in Goa - Train, Bus, Taxi, auto, Pilot, Bike, Ferry!!! Amy was happy about it. 

Reached at about 12 30ish. Took less than 15 mins to get ready and as the prev 3 days.. she didnt have a comb. ( Found a new nickname for Amy - the Medusa!!! ) Megu pointed out that they didnt come for her function the day before.  Ati had given her 15 mins to go and catch up with Megu, give  her the gift and leave by 1. Had lunch and left at 1 30. Reached Ponda at 2ish. The train was at 3. The auto driver was telling - it would take an hour to reach Madgaon by bus and then 20 mins further to reach the station. Amy was reminded of the onward journey to Goa. They reached exactly at 3. But the train was half an hour late.

The train journey was another adventure in itself. No fan. They got a guy to repair the fan but he only repaired on of the 3. Why?? No answer. Lot of cockroaches. Amy spend first couple of hours physically killing them. Yewww!!! The adventure was not just because of these but Ati "The Page 3" in second class. Phew!!! Amy seems more patient to things - thanks to Ati. ;)

Bhuke Birds

U have heard of angry birds but bhuke birds.. well the story goes like this.

Amy had been to delhi with couple of colleagues. On the way the mumbaikar asks the delhite, "Waah itna bada cricket ground??"

"Abbe oh.. yeh cricket ground nahi hai. Yeh khet hai!!!"

Till they reached Delhi station mumbaikar was being teased without limits. Amy was happy, for once she was spared. 

"Dekho dekho yeh gaai hai"
"Dekho dekho yeh tubewell hai"

"Dekho dekho yeh common indian villager hai"



It was decided hence that we would take time off to see a village. It ll help ease various misconceptions in the minds of these firangs. :P After they were done with the marathon and the slumber that followed, Delhite's folks took Amy and the mumbaikar to the gaon.

Aunty Ji said the typical bollywood dialogue "Beta, Jahan tak tumhari nazar jaati hai wahan tak humari khet hai"

In one of the hazaar khet that was closer to the road we could see tubewell, so the destination was decided. If that was not the real reason, the marathon stress was :P Cauliflower was grown there and Amy got a freshest of fresh califlower and the localite commented "Tujhe Phool toh bade mile hone par yeh le cauliflower". Well does Amy need a reason to blush :)

To change the topic she pointed out to the mumbaikar whether he spotted the stork that was sitting among the plants. Aunty interjected saying "Yeh Bhuke hain"
Amy, the no so expert started explaining to the mumbaikar "Haan, is khet mein baiththe hain toh bhuke honge. Cauliflower khate honge"
Aunty was like thinking why would someone eat cauliflower sitting in the farm.
Mumbaikar to the rescue, he was the only one who understood what exactly happened. He says to Amy "Abbe Aunty is talking about bouquet not bhuke. The cauliflower to be the bouquet in this occasion"

He then turns to aunty explaning the whole thing, "We were talking about the stork. She thinks these are hungry for the cauliflowers. There are too many sitting in the area and she established a rule that they are here because there are so many cauliflowers"

I guess its to do with Amy's vegetarian instincts!!! Over all she just goofed up once more.

Paww

Sounds like a cute little cuddling animal. Amy's close friends in my workplace call Amy "Paww". Well it has a story. It always has a story. else its not worth narrating!!!



Amy was to meet a friend from Internship. Apparently he is Amey's childhood friend. Also my roommate was his childhood friend , they were staying in the same building or colony or something. What a close world.With all these connections, there was a need to close the loop. To do so all they required a common meet up. Amy invited Anand, Amey and another friend from Internship DeeD. The idea was to meet in RainForest RCity mall Ghatkopar.


Amy woke up and missed her breakfast to rush to the place. She was directing Anand how to reach even though he is a localite.:P Well I would personally vouch for localites of Mumbai for not knowing Mumbai enough. Just as she finished the call with Anand. Amy's mom called her and she was doing her daily ritual when a small kid of 10 - 12 years old was eve teasing Amy. Had I been there personally to witness this I would have burst out laughing. Kid you need to set your preferences right. 

Added to the woe of bursting out laughing - I almost got stomach cramps and Amy is trying to shoo the kid away. Why? Her mom asked her who is in the background. Also that a small kid like him is doing something wrong for his age. So mademoiselle loses it and all she can think of is to hit the kid. The boiling Teacher instincts? Scary man!!! Cuts the call with her mother. And gives gaali to the kid. Amy is not capable of Hi Fi gaali.In the meanwhile Amey calls up to enquire where she was. She picks up the call and just as she mutters "Hi!!!" the kid comes back. She couldnt find anything, she hits him with the phone( Had it been Nokia the impact would have been considerable.) - shouting "Police ko bulaoongi". Rest of the shouting is not relevant to the story.


Now from side of Amey:


'I know i was late. She has all the reason to be angry but this is no reason to call police. Weird female.'

Tap the call gets cut. Few minutes later Amy calls Amey to apologise but he doesnt pick up the call. She doesnt think too much but walks ahead. She meets up with Anand.


You need not be a rocket scientist to guess what the topic of discussion for the whole day was. Well "Entertainer of the day" award goes to ... i dont want any piece of that wrath. So she gets rechristened into "Paw" because of her apparent south indian accent, she says "Pawlice"

The Pune Trip

Social obligations sometimes do come in, not just your way of travel but also in the way of your career aspirations. Amy had her B School interview and her close cousin's wedding. Amy has qualms to choose one over the other but she manages to give time for everyone.


Well, aspiring for higher studies means folks in office dont know about the same. The challenges to entering a B School is not about CAT and other ATs nor the interview but how not to let your boss know about your preparations. And in Amy's case her boss was getting married and hence was on vacation. So she confides in her ex boss to keep track of any urgent mails. Mynk was Amy's partner in crime to bell the entrances. She ensures all work is taken care of and falls ill ;) She attended few events the day prior to the wedding and left for an early morning flight on a sleepy friday morning.

 After her first round of interview, (She also guesses it was GD - it has been 3 years now! ) she gets call from office from an angry boss. All the happiness of clearing first rounds just vaporizes in thin air. She calls up Mynk, who does the urgent work that came up. Hoping there would be no more issues, completes her interview process. Goes to her mom 's fav aunt's place, checks for live updates of from the cousin's marriage. It was a great reunion with family. Exploring Pune without any aids was fun, well this was the laying stone for her independence.

These were the plans that was known to all. The great friends of Amy, and given the fact she never used to come for trips with her friends. This was a best chance before everyone moves off in their own directions. So Mr Nan plans a Lonavala trip. Amy, Nan, Nan's Cousin - Smit , the Cousin's best friend - Nis and Best friend's friend Ria. Phew it was the most linear friendship in a grp of people atleast me and Amy has seen till that point. These days Amy skips the few point of contact even in linear friendships. I am still the same.

So Amy leaves Pune Mami's house catches the train in which Nan was coming from Bangalore. Nan also got down to check if Amy got the train. The general was obviously unclimbable. Nan and Amy did what they have been cursing passengers who climb into reserved bogies and stand!!! And lo.. today we were doing the same. Dual standards.. Shame on you Amy !!!

Reached Lonavala at night way past 12. Amy always had a deadline to reach home at 7 pm and look at her. Walked through the roads to reach the resort where the friends would meet them. Once they reached the Dorm no one was to be seen. On asking we found out they are taking bath (at 1 in the night are they friggin outta their minds?) And when he opened the door it smelled as if he just emptied one whole bottle of body wash on him. Not just that they went out to have dinner at 1 40 am? Amy am sure was scandalized thinking of grandpa. Once dinner was over she had a long day and just wanted to hit the bed. Only thought hovering her mind, "why the hell is she stuck with such sophisticated high class folks" and wanted the next day to pass as quickly as possible so that she can go back to her home.

Morning, groggily they woke up. Got ready and left the room. "Who is in for chai? " Amy's eyes lit up at the name of chai. When they were walking towards the restaurant, Nis said "lets have chai in the tapri" There was a flood of happiness - mast chai and he s not as bad as she judged him to be. Then the craze started - it was an instant connect with Amy and Nis that she forgot long term best friend Nan and also Smit whom she has met few times.

There were 700+ fotos clicked in the next 5 hours and it felt like 5 months of staying together. Goodbyes suddenly seemed very tough and as a result Amy & Nan left Lonavala late. The delay avalanched to a point that they missed the bus back to Bangalore. Amy skipped the idea sadly not to visit the famous ganpati temple Dagdu Seth. All they got was a khatara state transport bus and it was not even revolutionarily fast!!!

VRL bus waited and left the stop which they were supposed to board. Nan put some jugaad and some plan in place. They took an auto to cover distance across pune and catch the bus in next stop. So much traffic, Amy left all hopes of reaching home. Probably take another bus. But just for the flow sake going with the madness created by Nan.

And then Amy reached her limit of patience, when Nan stopped to buy sweets and namkeen from a famous shop. She generally rolls her eyes at quirkiness of people but she couldnt understand which part of last couple of hours of urgency didnt Nan understand. She was about to burst when Nan comes back. To keep her cool she started talking to Autowala - asked where Dagdu Seth was. He points right across the street. She was like "Come on! Life cant tease me better!!!" All she could do was give her signature sheepish smile. (In Sain's language the Duck Face ;) )

Well if all these were to happen then she some how felt they would catch the bus and guess what - They Did!!!

The Bullet

Working late night, many of us loose the normal ability to think clearly. Skewed conversations can be lot of fun. When you are already working late, one looses the sense of time and suddenly time slows down, anyways we have signed up to stay up late - loose the sleep, so as well take it up on the pace you want than to hurry things. If day time is a chaos of headbanging to death metal song then night time is a ballet to a rumba song. Amy's Colleague was staying up late to finish up a presentation to be submitted to the higher up ( read way higher up!!! that makes it damm critical ) After putting the contents, now was time for beautification. Well more than content it is how you present it matter hence the name "Presentation" :P Amy remembered her leadership program boss who used to rush through the ppt and say "it hits me in the eye". Ask what - "well! something hits me. Things are not at same level, color combination, font it could be anything except the content :P " (Those were the days !!! ) Amy was on call with a friend, not in mood to work. Could push herself harder tomo to complete the pending tasks - engineer mentality. The call was different from her normal calls, that she takes within office premises because it was girly gossip that was featured conversation on the call. So much of giggles and laughter that followed that she forgot how much she was talking. Basically it was a GOGS call. Colleague calls Amy, Call is waiting. She walks upto him seeing the missed call. He asks for help in formating and so called beautification. Amy apes the techniques that her boss had used in the past. The Colleague exclaims "Color the bullet green" and the lets pause the time here. It gets interesting as to what each one thinks: Colleague:

Megu: Amy and her violent streak

Amy:

No wonder they say everyone has their own perception - Lol

Punctuation

Amy is associated with haste, speed & clumsiness. yes you are right!!!

Here s an example how she almost got married because of the punctuation.

T&Y was star gazing and talking philosophy :P He gets a msg "Hello my friend got married and I freaked out because of that" from who else Amy!!!

Well being Amy's friend, there should some quirkyness to him and he doenst read it like normal people - he interprets with his own punctuation inserted ( as shown ) - "Hello, my friend. Got married and I freaked out because of that"

He gets flustered - Amy's craze to run away and get married has come true. Everyone always thought it was a joke but then you can never be sure of Amy. T&Y calls Amy immediately, "What the hell happened"

Amy: "Yeah man, She is freaking out because she is getting married. She has been dating this guy for last 11 years and they are family friends n neighbours from her childhood. She knows the guys parents and they know her well. She used to postpone her marriage just to avoid this day.
She goes "meri sasuma mujhe torture karegi" LOL dude!!!"

T&Y: "Who She"

Amy: "Gau"

T&Y: "Did you learn to use punctuation in school"

Amy: "Why wat happ?"

T&Y explained the whole thing. Amy's response: Who the hell calls someone "Hello my friend" Still...

This is one of the lol conversations to come...

Friend's Best Friend

It has been over and over seen with Amy that once someone introduces her to a friend, the next time the three of them meet - the whole equation is changed. She am closer to the friend's friend. Not Just close they are Super Pals. This has been happening time and again. Best example is the following chain in the same order - Nandish - Pradeep - Raghu - Shujath - Sanjai - Suppi. Before we go to why this is so? She just cant stand the fact if it happened to her. Nandish can vouch for it.

I can see the gleam in her eyes when she gets to meet new people. It is sort of like drug that gets her on a high. One reason could be new people fresh realtion or it could be new people new personalities new outlook. But i have seen it on a decline in the recent years. Well, the huge friends list comes with social obligation and huge up keep and maitainence of the social network.

One more thing I see about her is - she is not that good with regrouping of these chains. She gets along with the people to feed on their personality traits and her pyschoanalysis on these people. Well it requires her to be neutral so that she doesnt influence people in anyways to change their behaviour. It is a known fact that everyone behaves in a way that is apposite to the other person. So when they regroup back, she is a toss because she is perceived as different by different people.

Amy keeps asking me - "Does this mean I am acting to people?" I am not sure, may be you just want to be accepted by everyone. I would let the floor open for you folks to give the judgement on her.....

Just Keep Talking On

Assuming you all know about Amy's history and how she discovered she had the gift of the gab ( well she realised when ddax told her she had it ;) ) She was trying to put it to max usage. Overconfident enough, she took 2 days to fill the simple form to apply to the forum.


Just before the JustT interview she falls ill, hilarious enough to get fever in which she goes on shivering. Imagine, Interviewers ask her to talk something and she shivers. Wow thats confidence.

She dresses up in western formals, and on top of it wears a shawl, trust me I saw her and she looked like "mujhe apna haath de de thakur" wala thakur types. I asked her to take the shawl off, but she started shivering. I wanted to laugh out loud. But wanted her some reassurance. She scared the hell out of interviewers by looking so ill. Made them switch off the fan. It was a pyschological atyachar to feel pity and not be grilled. I asked Amy why was she tensed about a Forum Interview and she goes "It was tough to face a friend as interviewer. Esp when the friend can know what you think even before you think and how you react before you react, its real difficult."

Well they cant just let her go or take her in without any tough challenges. The fiend, oops Friend played his part - Asked her to talk impromptu, especially knowing how random Amy's thoughts can get. There she started her blabbering and 2 years of GradSchool she goes on and OOOOONNN!!!!! I am still not sure if she was actually ill or acting. I always thought she was too proud to accept that she was ill nor i want to give credit to her acting skills.

Bhaag Zaroor Lena

Few months back, Amy succumbed to peer pressure and decided to register for marathon. What was going through her mind... Amy wanted to overcome her fear. For a person who had just run once in an 100 meters and that too in Class 5, this was a brave step. For a person who hates running, this was a commendable step.

The thought was running through Amy's mind, she used to discuss with me, She needed to practice. But... !!! Then her Jagriti Yatra happened leaving no space for anyone to point out that she was lazy to drag herself out of bed to practice. ( Another post for her jagriti yatra hungama )

Come back from JY and it was time to clean up the mess that was created in her absence. Will it surprise if I say she fell and twisted her ankle. The creative firangs were creating a tree of sorts from used Aquafina bottles. As AnanK pointed out, "Is it creating more waste or what?" Jy train reached Kalyan and in a hurry to get out with the donkey load of luggage she had, she couldnt see where she was walking. She apparently stepped on the label. The placement of the label was also right by the door, she skid right into the space between the train and the platform. Well it was hilarious at the best at first, but thank god she had huge suitcases that stopped her from falling right through to the rail.

She limps to the Club Meet. She is in crape bandage for the next few days. She decides to run with crape bandage on the day of marathon? Yes you guessed it right. Deriving inspiration from Present Roomie's preparation and enthusiasm. Also the Roomie praised Amy of how active she is. Lol I am sure Amy's bro KP would also laugh along with me. So will Amy's mom. Amy was basically a very lazy kid.

She was happy to be part of marathon and all the hype around it. Created right from Aleem Bhayya to Rajan to Agashe to Shanu to Swathi. Then many of her friends were running, she bumped into many people. As far as I know Amy, for her the City is close to her heart if she bumps into people who she knows all the time. Bangalore was working very well and Mumbai has started to catch up. I know this for sure Amy has been avoiding socializing or rather spreading her social web so as not to stay back. More social connections she has here more difficult it becomes to get back to her Native.

I dont know how many names Amy took referring to the people she met. Very inspiring stories. From Worli Sea Face towards Haji Ali - She met this 50 Year old who over heard Amy saying "Why am I torturing my body?" This lady repsonds "I am 50+ and I havent had a single drop of water, So now you better run along" Amy was just too dumbstuck to reply even by a nod. Within less than a 1 Km - A Guy with Artificial limb was Running/Walking.






Amy did run about 8 kms till Worli Sea Face but may be because of Crape bandage or Bad shoes - she realized she has blisters. Till that point she had confidence that she can finish just because other can, so can she attitude. But she was loosing hope because she was panicking from inside. She had few small pebbles inside the shoe which can be irritating. God knows how it landed up in her shoe. ( No PT Usha stunts sorta story) She put her wrist band and hankie on the other to give some extra cushion. Not really it would help much, still worth a try.

As she said bye to Roomie in the Uturn, she saw AR. God sent. The same AR, she and Roomie decided to leave behind because he decided to walk. He gets all enthu, lets jog. Hahha - my thought at this juncture is same as yours - she cant last that long dude. As SDgr pointed out "Paww you have become soft" Well she always appeared as one Dude. Never thought anyone would walk along with her, esp when she is not able to walk. She developed a limp after crossing Sophia College. Some god had gotten into AR - AR was unearthyly selfless. Listening to same music, they were not able to walk but were able to dance at the same place, eat on the way. Bursting bubbles, water spray

Amy was at a look out for any railway station from the time she crossed Mahalaxmi. Even she didnt admire the serene Haji Ali. Amy's wish came true around 18th km after crossing chowpatty, Lo there was Charni Road. Adding more logic to her argument - CST mein itni gardi hogi ki yahin se train leke ghar jaate hain. AR didnt argue back, just held the back of her neck, literally pushed her - "aaram se chal but we will finish" Just then Monty and PD called "Aaj hi khatam karna hai" Swathi, Ram and Chiru had finished the race by then.

She completed it "jaise thaise" but she found her inspirations and people found her inspiring. Some effect it had on people thats the hype of Mumbai Marathon. Everyone trying to do things, come out of their comfort zone and explore, grow in life. Even if they were not running they were cheering for the crowd. Coming out of their houses, coming all the way and cheering for the participants. "Medal" for achieving the uncalled for and unimaginable for Amy. Well, even i cant believe it was over. Hats off to Amy's body which lives through the torture she put it through. Even she was too happy that it cooperated with her to finish the race. It means a lot to her. One more things off her "to do" list. And as Rachit pointed out, "Whats next climbing Himalayas???"

Lets see, I would be here to give you guys an update.

In a soup or in a pickle

After her Mad Hatter incident, I was thinking of many Amy's Misadventures, one more came to my mind. And how can i forget this.


 Meet D - Amy's bestest friend from college - If you have read prev blog Punnu's version2 in Amy's life. Partner in crime and crazy gigglers of all times, to have them thrown out of public transport for nuisance and potentially spreading insanity ( or even for the simple gibber gabber conversation by incoherent uncontrollable laughs )


Final year Amy was supposed to do a project and submit in college. They decided to do it in D's father's company. Not that he owned it, but he was a big shot in there. Enough to get them all the resources to do more masti and spread their madness.


In the first stint of corporate world, armed with craziness, girlish gigglers had a over sincere supervisor, who almost did their entire work. All they did was come to office, keep their bags, get freshened up, Lunch Time, come back to cubicle. control their laughs. crack more situational jokes. ( best part was the laughs were so infectious any sane person joining them would do the same, hence they didnt bother abt anyone else to come near us ) Go for coffeee ( We used to get gr8 tomato soup, by the end of their stint the company went into loss and had to stop it. In future the auditing scandal can be traced back to this, as the auditing firm was not able to account for the pilfirage :P ) feel sleepy even more. Time to leave.


As you can see the major part of all these fun and frolic was Lunch Time. One such day, D and Amy were having argument on whether it was curd or curds. The literature experts were so engrossed in their conversation, they were unaware of the long queue and the boredom to the listeners. Finally when they reached the food, the Great Amy - reaches out to curd ( the topic of dicussion ). It fuelled high volume argument between the two. What to do, Amy believes more she fights with people closer she would be.  When they realised the argument was going no where. But to remove the unvented anger they picked the next item, THE PICKLE, but it was stuck to the spoon and didnt come off that easily. Amy goes, Kya D zor se hila spoon ko. And she shook D's hand so hard that it overshot the plate and landed up on the pants and shoe of the guy standing behind them.


What next.. ESCAPE. Fire escape can be used even when there is no fire.


With each passing day, they forgot abt the incident. Well they did behave well - to an extent atleast. They started coming early to office, with the fear of not having any deliverable to show case at the end of internship period. Think of the HOD in his worst form!


Day N: Amy and D enter office, go straight to lift. Entered the lift which carried few guys from basement where the parking was. There was one guy who was staring and was visibly angry. Once he got off at Level 2. Amy exclaimed out loud to D, "what was his problem. I know coming to office can be stressful but you cant help it or you cant show it"


"Well, not when few silly girls add to his agony, by spilling food items on his clothes"


"You mean. He is.. The Pickle.. No Wonder. Oopss!!!"


Well the whole point of narration: "You can afford to forget the incident but not the person who was affected"